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06-09-2014, 02:00 PM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Bay City, MI
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tail light
Getting ready to install the tail light on the rudder. I called VAn's and the new combination LED tail light/strobe is $340. WOW. Is this to be expected? This light can't be more than 2 inches in diameter and isn't going to illuminate anything in front of me. Are there other less expensive considerations available to me?
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06-09-2014, 02:20 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Atlanta
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Are you aware that you are building an airplane?  The Wheelen non-LED tail/strobe is $230 and it goes out every few hundred hours
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06-09-2014, 02:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Granbury Texas
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I have the LED strobe on my 10, it is great and no power supply.
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06-09-2014, 02:35 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Southern California
Posts: 617
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Tail/Strobe
ZTron Labs tail light and strobe for $90
They advertise here.
Nice feature: If you buy the tip strobes too, they can all sync.
CC
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06-09-2014, 02:36 PM
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Harrisburg, Pa
Posts: 759
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Originally Posted by dspender
Getting ready to install the tail light on the rudder. I called VAn's and the new combination LED tail light/strobe is $340. WOW. Is this to be expected? This light can't be more than 2 inches in diameter and isn't going to illuminate anything in front of me. Are there other less expensive considerations available to me?
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Dennis,
While expensive, LEDs really are the way to go IMO. The low draw and reliablility are winners in and of themselves in my book. Their apprearance is the icing on the cake  |
06-09-2014, 02:42 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Omaha, NE (KMLE)
Posts: 2,246
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Second vote for Ztron. Although I'm still building, I've tested mine several times. Bright as all get-out, easily configured for the flash pattern you want, and the tail light will sync with the wingtip lights.
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Dale
Omaha, NE
RV-12 # 222 N980KM "Screamin' Canary" (bought flying)
Fisher Celebrity (under construction)
Previous RV-7 project (sold)
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06-09-2014, 04:41 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: n. wi
Posts: 775
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there are several choices out there for a tail light that meets requirements for night flight under $100.
i also have the ztron wingtip strobes/nav and plan to add their tail light
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n. wi.
dakota hawk/jab 3300 built and flying. sold 6/18.getting serious about the 12. in the hangar now as of 10/15/19
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06-09-2014, 04:46 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Brooksville, FL
Posts: 355
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Tail Light
Go out and find a Grimes tail light socket at any aircraft junk yard (Maybe $25.00). Then go to your local autoparts store and purchase a less than $1.00 bulb.....
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Originally Posted by dspender
Getting ready to install the tail light on the rudder. I called VAn's and the new combination LED tail light/strobe is $340. WOW. Is this to be expected? This light can't be more than 2 inches in diameter and isn't going to illuminate anything in front of me. Are there other less expensive considerations available to me?
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RV-7A N924RV Flying (1825 Hrs & counting)
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06-09-2014, 05:12 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: New Bedford Ma
Posts: 37
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We actually own a remote starter and alarm business and sell misc, bulbs and other car accessories and they make a led for any kind of socket now , 1157 , 1156 , all of them. So you can take a regular socket and turn into a bright led that lasts ,
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06-09-2014, 06:40 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Mojave
Posts: 4,642
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I have a little LED 197 replacement bulb in a standard Grimes type tail light housing. The bulb is only a couple bucks, and almost everyone has an old tail light assembly laying around.
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